Over dinner, I share something surprising I recently learned: the recycle symbol on plastic isn’t a guarantee your item is ...

At least 85% of single-use plastic items don’t get recycled, even if they carry the familiar triangular symbol. A California bill would restrict which plastics can bear the mark.

Gary Anderson went on to a career in architecture and urban planning after winning the 1970 recycling symbol design contest. “I’m a one-hit wonder when it comes to graphics,” he said.

Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, their city offers comprehensive curbside recycling and composting — and it’s strongly expected that everyone know how to use them ...

Why the recycling symbol could end up in the trash bin. The EPA is joining with environmental groups to ditch the circular arrow symbol so consumers are more aware of what plastics can truly be ...

States aim to overhaul plastic recycling 06:50. One of the most recognized logos around, the recycling symbol, is in line for a major revamp. California recently became the first state to restrict ...

The iconic chasing-arrows recycling symbol, invented 20 years earlier, ... Plastics threaten “near-permanent contamination of the natural environment,” according to one study, ...

The use of the recycling symbol—the familiar three chasing arrows—constitutes a misrepresentation of claims, says the EPA.

The agency wants to stop using the “chasing arrows” logo on plastics that can’t be recycled. The man who designed it more than 50 years ago agrees that the symbol has been misused.

Recycling symbols can be confusing In the 1970s, a packaging company paid the college student who won their design contest a few thousand dollars for the chasing arrow symbol that's now ubiquitous ...

The recycling symbol—those three arrows stamped on myriad plastic items—doesn’t mean what most people think it does, and a California bill wants to change that.

But Allen soon learned that he was “wishcycling”— carefully sorting items with the recycling symbol, only to discover they weren’t getting recycled. “It is technically recyclable under the best of ...